Mountain Bee Market

10/18/2025

We are all set up and ready to see you at the Banner Elk Wooly Worm Festival! 🧡

10/10/2025

Saunder’s Old Country Store Apple Butter festival is this Saturday from 10 to 5, and I'd love for you to join us! Find the little yellow truck, grab a lawn chair, enjoy fresh apple butter, bluegrass music, mountain honey, and so much more.
🎵 🍎 🍁 🍯 🐝

10/10/2025

Come see Mountain Bee Market next weekend in Banner Elk 🐝 you can get tickets in advance using this link💛🤎💛

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/woolly-worm-festival-2025-tickets-1562826238349?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/01/2025

Mountain Bee Market will “bee 🐝” at:

The Apple Butter Festival at Saunders Old Country Store on Saturday, October 11th

The Banner Elk, NC - Woolly Worm Festival on October 18-19

Come see us and try some of our 🌶️
Hot Honey, 🍯 sweet Appalachian wildflower or sourwood honey, or try some delicious honey butters

08/18/2025

I came across this today—a close-up of a honey bee stinger!

🐝 A worker bee’s stinger is barbed. This means that when she stings, her stinger gets stuck in the skin, and she tears part of her abdomen trying to fly away—unfortunately, she dies afterward.

🐝Drones (male bees) cannot sting at all.

🐝Queen bees have smooth stingers, so they can sting multiple times. But queens rarely use their stingers on humans—they usually reserve them for fighting other queens to establish dominance in the hive. These battles can be lethal!

Honey bees are generally not aggressive. Their behavior often depends on how the hive is handled:
Rough handling, banging frames, or sudden movements can make bees defensive.
When checking your hive, always stay calm, slow, and steady in your movements to keep the bees relaxed.

07/06/2025

Come to The Blackberry Festival in downtown Lenoir on July 11 and 12. Enjoy sampling our Blue Ridge mountain honey, hot honey and honey butters, meet my Appalachianhomesteader, and we’ll be setup right beside ☀️ Boone Pottery Co’s beautiful pottery

05/17/2025

Save the date June 28th, 2025🐝 come see us at Heritage Day for beautiful pottery, crafts, and delicious Appalachian mountain honey

Save the date: June 28,2025. Annual wood fired kiln opening in beautiful . Part of the and . Everyday pottery by every day potters for 6 generations. #

10/13/2024

What a fantastic day at the Apple Butter Festival! We are so grateful for all the amazing people we met at the little yellow truck and the new friendships we made today! 💛 Saunders Old Country Store

10/09/2024

Join us at the Apple Butter Festival this Saturday, October 12th from 10am-5pm, where Mountain Bee Market will be set up with our little yellow truck. We will have a selection of honey and honey butter products available for purchase, including sourwood, wildflower, hot, and creamed honey. We hope to see you there! Saunders Old Country Store 🍎🐝🍯

09/13/2024

Attention ‼️ Maker’s Nest for this Saturday, October 5th has been cancelled. See you soon!